THE CITY OF PUNO - LA CIUDAD DE PUNO

The Department of Puno, is one of the few Andean departments that are characterized to have a flat relief that oscillates between 3.800 and 4.000 msnm.

The City of Puno, also well-known as "Capital Peruvian Folklore" or "Cradle of the Incaico Empire", is located in the Puno bay, to borders of the Titicaca Lake and approximately 3.827 m.s.n.m..

In this department asento the Aymara town, as result of it were developed one of the most important cultures of old Peru, the Tiahuanaco culture, whose archaeological rest; like the Cover of the Sun, they cause to great admiration to nationals and foreigners.

According to one of the legend on the foundation of the incaico empire, the first Inca; Manco Cápac and its companion Ocllo Breast, emerged from the depths of the Titicaca Lake, sent by their father the God Sun to found the empire of the Tahuantinsuyo, which dividio in four regions, being Puno included/understood in the region of the Collasuyo, which extended by the plateau of the Collao, in which today it is Peru and Bolivia.